UTSA hosting two lectures on Mexico’s Mayan sites, chilangos

UTSA’s Mexico Center, its anthropology department and its grad students will host a lecture by scholar Alfredo E. Barrera Rubio of the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan on the “Archaeological relationship between three Maya sites: Uxmal, Chichen Itza and Kuluba.” The talk will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11 in the Willow Room of the University Commons at the 1604 campus.

The second lecture will be given by David Lida, author of “First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century.” The work is described as “a journalistic street-level panorama of contemporary Mexico City” and an explanation of “how people survive in this most misunderstood megapolis.”

It’s part of the UTSA Mexico Center’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. Lida will speak at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the Monterrey Building on Frio Street at the downtown campus. Free parking is available in Lot D3 underneath Interstate Highway 35. Paid parking, $1 an hour, is available in the Monterey Building parking lot at 301 S. Frio St.

In a separate Yucatan-related event at 7 p.m. Sept. 10, visit the Instituto Cultural de México, which will host a musical and dance “Fiesta Yucatan at the Heart of Texas” starring LIgia Camara, a pianist and bolero singer, and the Folkloric Ballet Flor de Maiz. The free event is sponsored by the instituto and the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs. For a reserved seat, call (210) 227 0123.